Informação e desinformação no Nordeste

Abstract

This report summarizes the production process of the Nordeste Sem Fake column, which was developed as an experimental project and became a journalistic product of Agência Tatu, being disseminated in its weekly newsletter. The objective of the column is to promote media education about misinformation, in addition to disseminating and promoting journalistic work that combats disinformation that circulates in the Northeast or affects its population. The algorithmic and exponential increase in false information constitutes a serious threat to the right to information and has been used as a political weapon to manipulate public opinion. Furthermore, the suitability of journalistic work is called into question in the face of the chaos generated by disinformation, since many agents of disinformation publish and disseminate their false or biased content as if it were news, ignoring the stages of the news gathering process within the view of the ethics and technique of the journalist's work. It is therefore necessary to combat, through information, these practices that are harmful to society in general and journalistic activities more specifically. I use as a reference the works of Mello (2019), Brizola and Bezerra (2018) and Jorge (2021), among others, to conceptualize disinformation and contextualize this chaotic scenario in the universe of digital media.